For a brief but wild time the twenti and thirti, an openly gay culture thrived Chigo—a perd historians ll the “Pansy Craze.” Nightclubs and barets drew crowds of homosexuals, lbians, and voyrs—among them, soclogists who dutifully rerd the proceedgs. Recently redisvered rellectns om that era have land the cy the foreont of the small but popular field of gay historil rearch.
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- MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
- JAM FRAN'S GAY PORN DRAMA: 'HE LOV HIS SNDALO STORI'
MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
As his wife, Amada (Mabel Cana), begs to grow spic of his whereabouts, Ignac begs to velop a fatal attractn to a man named Evaristo Rivas (Eiano Zura), whom he troduc to his clanste club of homosexual film’s tle — s origal Spanish is "El Baile los 41" — refers to the night of Nov. But a sndal ensued when ial reports placed a 42nd man attendance, and the story spread that was la Torre, the print’s son--law, markg the first time homosexualy was openly discsed the Mexin media. "What would have happened if Ignac was not disvered as a gay man?
He would have been one of the important Mexin figur om our history, but he was taken away om that bee he was gay. NetflixAs someone who is nsistently the procs of “re-tg myself” — a value he and his wife, Diana Vázquez, would like to pass on to their young children — Herrera unrstands the potential ntroversy surroundg his cisn to play a gay character.
Burgs was rryg out the untry's first extensive rearch project to homosexualy.
JAM FRAN'S GAY PORN DRAMA: 'HE LOV HIS SNDALO STORI'
For a brief time the late 1920s and early 1930s, siar scen unfold up and down the cy, as a relatively open gay culture thrived Chigo, wh gay barets and nightclubs proliferatg throughout the Near North and South sis.
A place lled Diamond Lil's, at 909 North Rh Street, was packed so tight wh partyg gays that people were turned away. The historian Chad Heap has noted that the flowerg of gay life at that time vered much of the cy's ethnic landspe: "Ain Amerin drag entertaers performed for racially mixed dienc at some of the South Si's most famo ‘black and tan' [barets]. The nighttime entertaments did not attract jt gays.
High society and the middle class flocked to the barets to gawk or to experience the prient thrill of dancg wh one of the "homos.